The unnamed man had lodged the fork in his urethra for sexual gratification when it became stuck

The fork was removed by a team at Canberra Hospital using forceps and "copious lubrication" while the patient was under general anaesthetic.

Needles, pencils, wire, allen keys, toothbrushes, lightbulbs, thermometers, plants, vegetables, leeches, snakes, cocaine and glue were some of the other alien objects retrieved from other parts of the body in the report, the Canberra Times revealed.

"It is apparent that the human mind is uninhibited let alone creative," the medical journal added.